A Little Too Literal on HBO’s Hard Knocks

I think the director of HBO’s Hard Knocks is a bit too fresh out of film school. You can be a bit more subtle than having the voice over compare training camp to a carnival and then show a carnival in the B-roll footage, or show a slug when comparing the pace of training camp to well … a slug. The last straw was the narrator mentioning just how hard it is for some rookies to take the step from the college game to the pros, and then showing footage of a rookie tripping on the final step of a flight of stairs. Yea, real subtle and artistic there.